Kole
Kole is a boy's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 597th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,244th. About 9,700 Koles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kole boys named Kole
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,855
- Estimated living today
- 9,700
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 597th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,244th
- First recorded
- 1969
- Girls / boys
- 70 / 9,785
How old the living Koles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,855 babies given the name since 1969, about 9,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
The surname is an anglicization of German Kohl. The given name is a modern spelling variant of Cole.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Koles
- Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939)Albanian painter, sculptor, photographer, architect and engineer
People named Kole with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kole is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kole is most concentrated in Utah (3.7×), Idaho (2.5×), Iowa (2.2×), Indiana (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Kole peaked:
Kole elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kole | 441 | 856th |
| Scotland boys | Kole | 136 | 280th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Kole | 10 | 348th |
| Ireland boys | Kole | 7 | 637th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Kole against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.